HugQueen's Lit Treasury!
Welcome to the one-hundred seventieth issue of Love dA Lit!
Every Sunday this article will aim to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, and workshops, as well as highlighting various contests. This is by no means a complete list of all the literature going-ons, merely a tool to help you get involved and stay informed.
Literature Links
Go give ShadowedAcolyte a nice warm welcome as he is now a Literature CV! I guess you can welcome me as well, since I'm also a Lit CV now, too He's cooler though.- We're back to four CVs! Count em: neurotype-on-discord, inknalcohol, ShadowedAcolyte, and HugQueen.
- How to get more views on your Literature (Updated)
- Lit of the Week 118!
- Monthly Feature
- Friday Fours Fave Features
- Devious Medals `39
- Forum Discussion: Stress
- Seven Days of Sci-Fi
- Writer Resources and More
- #SixWordStories: Monthly Showcase
- Weekly Feature May 9, 2014
- chromeantennae posts plenty of features: one, two, three, four, and five.
- "Have you ever collaborated with another writer/artist?
asks LiliWrites - Poetry interlude
- Happenings in the Lit Community and a Impromptu Feature from Medoriko
- A Strange? Tribute to Writer Virginia Woolf
- Getting to Know: CrimsonWolf1
- Forum Discussions: George RR Martin defends Game of Thrones' sexual violence
- Forum Discussion: Can you tell when...
- Forum Discussion: What are some of your secret weapons to completing your stories?
- Forum Discussion: What would make you stop writing?
- Spotlights on... #12
- Alphabet Feature (1)
- Nichrysalis posts two new polls: "What is your favorite punctuation mark seen below (part 2)?" and "Which punctuation mark below would you use if it became accepted as part of the English language?"
- DeviantART: A Critical Community (Part 1)
- VertigoArt's poll: " Writers: Do you write..."
- Feature # 13
- WritersInk's Weekly Round-up!
- Apocalypse-writing's Member Feature Mondays
Group News
- Poets-Haven's First Group Written Poem
- SURPRISE! Special Promotion
- Just a Reminder from LiteratureAnonymous
- Updates from StoriesAndPoemsClub
- The Pitch (Final!) is Series-Unknown's latest journal.
- From Poets-and-Warriors: Dark Forest Contest Winners!
- The Tournament Round III Participants List and Writing Tournament 2014 Final Round are from Writers--club
- FancifulWriters' prompt is over and other news
- The Six Commandments of Edgar Allan Poe from Horror-Stories
- Ordinary-Writing's latest journal says "Sister-groups need our help, promote contests, etc"
- Group Update: please read and comment! from PoeticNation
- LyricsRus' newest journal: New Folder Options-SOUND OFF!
- theWrittenRevolution's Friends of the Revolution, May 2014 and poll: Have you submitted any work to us that hasn't gotten enough feedback from our members? Post the link in this poll's comments and we'll choose one to critique in-depth on May 16th in the second blog of our series "tWR Critiques You!"
- From Screnzy: 30-Day Prompt-Play Contest at House of Playwrights
- " How are we doing with the Metamorphosis Workshop? www.deviantart.com/journal/May… "
- In The Know - Updated May 8, 2014 and 300! from Apocalypse-writing
- Huge Apologies but... (unless anyone steps in?) from TwoThousandWords
- Teenage-Writers is closing
- My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink's March/April Forms Challenge Winner
- DailyLitRecognition posts a few new things: Sunday Scavenging--Results!, New Artist Highlight for May 10th, 2014, and Behnid the Scenes with VertigoArt
- Contest updates and important info! from We-Write-To-Escape
- Group Under Maintenance, Update!, and a poll "Hey everyone, now the admin issue is being sorted, we thought we'd bring the group together again with a nice prompt
So, what type of prompt would you like to write:" all from TheWritersMeow. - ThePoetryofDA's Affilates' News
- Authors-Club announces the Love is in the Air contest results.
- InspireTheUninspired Updated Time
- WritersInk posts about their Upcoming Contest
- LitCritiques' latest journal is Helping Out
- Persistent-Practice lets out another week of journals: Freaky Friday 43, May 2, Motivation Monday 44, May 5, Twosome Tuesday 44, May 6, WHY AM I DOING THIS Wednesday 44, May 7, and THIS SPACE STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION
- Wanna be in TheKnow? (Get it?) The Know Database Round-Up 7 and Index for The Know Database
- Prize Package Winners! from NaPoWriMo
- Writers-Guild-DA's SS1 of 2014 WINNERS and SS2 Announcement!
- PoetrynProseWatchers's Prompt details!!!
Inspiration (Workshops, Prompts and Challenges)
Weekly:Bi-Weekly:Monthly:Other:Ongoing Challenges [No Deadline]:Lit Contests Galore!
These include contests that are purely Literature based and those that have other categories as well, but still accept Literature.
New Contests:Contests Ending This Week:Contest Extensions: Resources
Regular Lit ArticlesGeneral ResourcesRecently Added/Updated ResourcesLooking for the rest of the resources? Go to the Community portal, below!
Looking to help out the Lit Community?
- ezradeacon has a fantastic list of Lit Groups in Need
- WritersXWorld currently has an open admin position. If you choose to apply the requirments are as follows: Responsible and active dA user; Familiar with group running; Relatively broad knowledge of writing in general; Friendly and helpful, of course!
- Looking to become a co-founder? Written-Life is looking for one.
- 4 Co-Founder and 2 Contributors are the open positions at InspireTheUninspired.
- Poets-Haven is Recruiting Admins
- LyricsRus is looking for 1, Admin, 3 Jounrlaists, 1 Talent Scouts, Two Presentation Directos, 3 Critics
- LiteratureAnonymous is looking to fill their Moderator Positions
- Co-Founder Positions Open at FancifulWriters
- Blog writers are needed over at PoeticalCondition
- The-Life-of-Words is Looking for new Admins.
- NaPoWriMo is Looking for Admins: a co-founder and 2 contributors.
- Moderators are wanted at Unconventional-Story.
- Co-Founders Needed at DALiteratureContests
- Critics, "At the moment poetry specifically, but prose is always welcome as that folder fills fast. If you can do both you're awesome.Requirements: At least one critique per month. May submit own work for critique by other critics. - GrammarNaziCritiques
- A Co-Founder is wanted at Story-Corner.
- New Admins Needed at PowerfulWriting.
- Beta-Readers needs some help behind the scenes.
- Poetry Admins to review and critique submissions are currently needed at LOVE-Original-LIT
- Flying-Fingers is looking for admins to help with submisisons and other things.
- A call out for some new admins has been put out by Letters-To-Myself.
- Project Manager and Contest Manager are the open positions at SixWordStories.
- We-Poets, is looking for more admins
- Want to help out at Poetry-Magnet? They're looking for contributors.
- Moderators are needed at Literature-Series.
- SPOTLIGHTWRITERS is looking for some contributors to help approve submissions
- Some admins are wanted to help out at Adopt-A-Writer.
- Moderators are needed in the group, FantasyAuthorsGuild
- 2 Affiliates/PR Admins, 2 Pay It Forward Admins, and 4 Critics are open at lacoterie.
- Love-4-Dark-Poetry is looking for someone to "assume the group and give all involved" attention.
- Contibutor and Co-Founder positions are open at Sacred-Literature.
- Story Scouts and general helpers are LiteraryCompass's current open positions.
- FantasyLiterature would like another admin to help with upcoming projects.
- RomanceforEveryone would like Bi-Weekly Blog Feature Manager, Bi-Weekly Blog Feature Helpers, Resources Director, Critique Approvers, and some General Administrators.
- 1 Community Liaison and 2 Critics are needed over at LITplease.
Looking for some groups?
If you're still not finding a group you like check out the list of all literature groups on dA:
Click here!Literature Community Relations
neurotype-on-discord -
neurotype's DD Suggestion Guidelines
inknalcohol -
GrimFace242's DD Suggestion Guidelines 
ShadowedAcolyte -
ShadowedAcolyte's DD Suggestion Guidelines 
HugQueen -
IrrevocableFate's DD Suggestion Guidelines
SingingFlames -
SingingFlames' DD Suggestion Guidelines [
Fan Fiction ONLY.]
Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them!
#CRLiterature - The Community Relations Literature Chatroom
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Contacting Me
See something you don't like? That you like? Want changed or removed? Have a suggestion for the next issue? Then please send me a note! The Literature Community is huge, so I'm always going to miss something or make a mistake, don't be afraid to let me know. ♥
Hugs, love and thanks to:
my favoritest
LITplease Community Liaison.
for letting me run
LITplease’s Community Portal.
who let me know about her new feature and a group's poem!
for letting me know about her group's need for admin.
Great article. Thanks for sharing!